"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk……" — Morris West
"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
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19 Quotes by Morris West
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must…
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables…
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the…
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the…
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in…
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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and…
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small…
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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to…
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him -…
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good…
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Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the…
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
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